All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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One of the better measures of a society’s vitality is its ability to protect its citizens from disease, and the two often move in tandem; a decline in one may produce a reduction in the other,
~ Vann Newkirk via The Atlantic
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In any story of today’s political disorders, this should be no subplot. At least since World War II, the West has been defined by its party system: different in each place but usually involving a duopoly of ruling parties fringed by smaller outfits, each robustly anchored in society. The system was the groundwork on which Western political life was built — unobtrusive, unremarked upon, yet quietly essential.
~ Anton Jäger via The New York Times
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As we no longer have an economic policy that is managed democratically, it should not be surprising that it produces unfair outcomes. Nor should it be surprising that in the wake of the mortgage crisis, Covid, the war in Ukraine and so-called Bidenflation, this unfairness would give rise to what Wolfgang Streeck calls “tendencies toward deglobalization” — such as those that emerged with a vengeance on November 5, 2024.
~ Christopher Caldwell
via This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
published by The New York Times on November 28, 2024
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
~ Emmanuel Radnitzky
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Gavin Newsom thinks the MAGA movement has mastered a form of ambient, non-stop messaging that the Democrats have not.
~ Nathan Heller via The New Yorker
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Perhaps the most remarkable fact about modern finance is that it fails on its own terms. Mergers and acquisitions tend to destroy value even as they sate the appetites of empire-building chief executives.
~ Oren Cass via The New York Times
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We live in a state of perpetual emergency being declared, and that has all sorts of corrosive effects.
~ Dean Ball via The Atlantic
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Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.
~ Dean Acheson
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A delay in a balancing feedback loop makes the system likely to oscillate.
~ Donella Meadows
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